HIFA-Spanish is launching on 7 November 2018!

6 November, 2018

Please forward this message to your networks and contacts and invite them to join! Note: HIFA-Spanish, HIFA-Portuguese, and HIFA-French include child health (unlike HIFA-English and CHIFA-English, which are separate forums for general and child health, respectively)

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We are delighted to announce that HIFA-Spanish is launching on 7 November 2018.

- is a global campaign and discussion forum to improve the availability and use of reliable health information in Spanish for all (general public, health professionals, policymakers).

- will play a vital role to help realise the HIFA vision: a world where each person and every health professional has access to the healthcare information they need to protect their own health and the health of others.

- is part of a growing dynamic network of six forums with more than 18,000 members around the world.

- is a collaboration between the Andalusian School of Public Health, World Health Organization, Pan-American Health Organization and Global Healthcare Information Network.

HIFA is committed to address the information needs of citizens, health workers and policymakers - and to promote global health communication - in different languages. HIFA already has forums in English (HIFA, CHIFA, HIFA-Zambia), French (HIFA-French) and Portuguese (HIFA-Portuguese), supporting dynamic discussion on issues relating to quality of healthcare, universal health coverage and the availability and use of healthcare information.

On behalf of HIFA I would like to thank all those who have made possible this milestone event, particularly fellow HIFA SG members Isabelle Wachsmuth (WHO Geneva), Alberto Fernandes (Andalusian School of Public Health), and Eliane Pereira dos Santos (PAHO).

Best wishes, Neil

Let's build a future where people are no longer dying for lack of healthcare information - Join HIFA: www.hifa.org

HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of the HIFA global health campaign (Healthcare Information For All - www.hifa.org ), a global community with more than 18,000 members in 177 countries, interacting on five global forums in three languages. He also currently chairs the Dgroups Foundation (www.dgroups.info), which supports 800 communities of practice on international development, health and social justice. Twitter: @hifa_org FB: facebook.com/HIFAdotORG /orcid.org/0000-0001-9557-1487 neil@hifa.org